The Spring 2017 Street Seats created by Parsons students in partnership with the New York City Department of Transportation, is a multi-level planter creating an organic separation between the road and the sidewalk while providing six benches off the main frame. The structural framework is made from 360 pieces of vietnamese bamboo. …

Parsons Alumni Lani Adeoye’s, Talking Tables collection was the Jury’s favorite at WantedDesign’s Launch Pad. A competition presented by Design Milk and Design Within Reach. Her winning collection (The Talking Tables) derive their form and essence from iconic West African musical instruments like the Talking Drum. Hand-welded steel, turned wood …

On June 8, 2017, Dr. Robert Kirkbride, Dean of Parsons School of Constructed Environments and Spokesperson for PreservationWorks, will present at the International Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, in Glasgow, Scotland. His paper, The Phantoms of the Kirkbride Hospitals for the Insane, considers the complex histories and phantoms of …

MFA Industrial Design Matthew Callahan’s BOBO bamboo toy was selected for the NYC x Design Awards at MoMA. The Awards, created by Interior Design magazine and the ICFF, highlight New York-based projects completed throughout the year. Matthew’s BOBO bamboo toy was a project developed in the Global Production studio, taught …

BFA Product Design Senior Sofia Frilund was the winner of the 2017 Student Merit Award for the NE District of the Industrial Designers Society of America. Frilund was selected to represent Parsons and competed against 10 other design schools, presenting projects from 3 years of study in the Product Design …

In collaboration with the NYC Department of Transportation (DOT), the Design Build course of the School of Constructed Environments, taught by professors Huy Bui and Carlos Gomez de Llarena, has developed this year’s Street Seats project for the corner of 13th Street and Fifth Avenue. The DOT Street Seats program reclaims …

Bernheimer Architecture, led by principal Andrew Bernheimer, won a Merit Award in the 2017 AIA Brooklyn+Queens Design Awards in the Unbuilt category for 1490 Southern Blvd, a 90,000sf affordable mixed-use residential development for seniors located in the Crotona Park East neighborhood of the Bronx, NY. This building will be constructed …

OUTSTANDING STUDENT PROGRAM OF THE YEAR (NON-STUDENT GROUP)   This award is presented to the students who are responsible for the development and implementation of an innovative program that significantly contributed to The New School during the academic year. Congratulations to Sam Bennett and Sarah Burns! Sam and Sarah assisted in organizing …

2015 BFA Product Design Alumni Shubham Issar, Amanat Anand, and Yogita Agrawal were recently selected for the Forbes Asia 30 Under 30 list of innovative entrepreneurs for their product SoaPen, a new system of soap-based crayons that brings easier hand-washing to underserved communities. For more information on SoaPen and their …

InsideInside.org is an online database and research platform of historic, modern and contemporary interiors. A call for feedback is included in the spring/summer 2017 issue of ‘Objective’, the Journal of the History of Design and Curatorial Studies Program at Parsons. The goal of the InsideInside website is to organize a resource …